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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Central & S. America, Mexico, Caribbean

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  • Where There Was Fire
    John Manuel Arias
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary...
  • Pink Slime
    Fernanda Trias
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and ...
  • The Fraud
    The Fraud: A Novel
    Zadie Smith
    Paperback: 06/06/2024
     
    From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against ...
  • The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
    Briony Cameron
    Hardcover: 06/04/2024
     
    This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few ...
  • Wings in the Wild
    Margarita Engle
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the ...
  • Hungry Ghosts
    Hungry Ghosts: A Novel
    Kevin Jared Hosein
    Paperback: 02/27/2024
     
    From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s ...
  • You Glow in the Dark
    Liliana Colanzi
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a ...

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